Archive: February 2005
The archive below lists all articles that have been posted on the World Socialist Web Site by date. To visit the archive for other months, return to the Archive Monthly Index.
1 February 2005
- El marxismo, el Comité Internacional y la ciencia de la perspectiva: un análisis histórico de la crisis del imperialismo estadounidense
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Kerry rejects call for Iraq troop withdrawal
Defeated Democratic candidate on “Meet the Press” - Letters from our readers
- Report reveals wide social division in UK higher education
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The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism
Part One - US military covers up suicide protest at Guantánamo Bay
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
2 February 2005
- Britain: Labour and Tories target immigrants in run-up to election
- Detroit mayor rides in luxury as city decays
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First-hand report
Forgotten tsunami victims: Burmese immigrants in Thailand - The American media and the Iraq election
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The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism
Part Two - Veteran British surrealist dies
3 February 2005
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A special report from Poland
Part 1: social misery in Silesia - British military plane downed in suspected Iraqi insurgent attack
- Bush’s state of delusion: speech to Congress ignores crises at home and abroad
- Facts and myths about Bush’s plan for Social Security privatization
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The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism
Part Three - US Federal Reserve lifts interest rates
4 February 2005
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A special report from Poland
Part 2: the Opel factory in Gliwice - David North speaks at Sydney’s Gleebooks
- Letters from our readers
- New York subway fire exposes city’s social and political crises
- PBS officials cave in to Bush administration over children’s program
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The historic decline of US imperialism and the prospects for socialism
Part Four - WSWS replies to letters on Iraq’s election and the US occupation
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
5 February 2005
- A would-be assassin and his discontent
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French workers need a new political perspective
Political issues in the fight against the attacks of Chirac and Raffarin - Germany: 5 million unemployed—worst since World War II
- Gonzales confirmed: war criminal to head US Justice Department
- Iraq election sets stage for escalating political turmoil
- More British troops face court martial: seven accused of Iraqi civilian murder
- Vietnam 1967 & Iraq 2005: using elections to justify criminal wars
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
7 February 2005
- Australian government persecutes released Guantánamo prisoner
- General who led US Marines in Iraq says “It’s fun to shoot some people”
- Guantanamo videotapes expose brutality against detainees
- Letters from our readers
- SEP meeting in Sri Lanka explains social roots of tsunami disaster
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Secretary of State Rice’s tour
US-European rift deepens over Iran
8 February 2005
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Amid sweeping cuts in US budget
Bush plans renewed assault on Medicaid - Jobs and wages picture remains bleak for millions in US
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Judge imposes pay cut on United Airlines mechanics
Assault on airline workers intensifies - Letters on the Iraq elections
- Nepalese king seizes power with the backing of the military
- Sri Lanka: widespread discontent among tsunami survivors
- UK government pushes ahead with privatisation of healthcare
- WSWS holds public meetings in Australia on Asian tsunami disaster
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
9 February 2005
- A socialist and internationalist perspective to confront the Asian tsunami disaster
- Australian woman imprisoned for 10 months as an illegal immigrant
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Britain: Matthew Parris and the tsunami disaster
“Revelling” as the death toll mounts - Britain: house arrest proposals widely criticised
- Bush’s budget: government by fraud and lies
- France: half-million-strong protest against government attacks
- Germany welcomes conference of war criminals, witch-hunts their opponents
- Medical bills cause more than half of US personal bankruptcies
- New evidence of Enron’s criminal role in California’s energy crisis
- US budget slashes social spending to pay for war and repression
10 February 2005
- Australia: recycled Labor leader says he will act for the wealthy
- Britain: house arrest proposals widely criticised
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US deserter’s refugee claim
Canadian government blocks consideration of legality of Iraq war - Elliot Abrams: defender of death squads to direct US “democracy” crusade
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Lawyer for US deserters speaks with WSWS
It cannot be irrelevant to a soldier that a war is legal or illegal - Needless tsunami deaths expose worldwide vulnerability and lack of US intervention
- New York’s public schools marred by corporate model, police repression
- Poor, distraught and desperate: Oregon man threatens suicide on floor of state Senate
- Scandinavian governments criticised for poor tsunami response
- Thailand’s right-wing populist wins national elections
11 February 2005
- Killing of LTTE leader raises danger of war in Sri Lanka
- Needless tsunami deaths expose worldwide vulnerability and lack of US intervention
- SBC buying AT&T; for $16 billion—25,000 telecommunications jobs to go
- Sharon government continues land grab in East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza
- The new McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill
- US Army National Guard faces recruitment crisis
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Bush administration tries to suppress evidence
US air traffic authority had multiple Bin Laden hijack warnings before 9/11 - US judge rejects claim that Guantánamo detainees have no rights
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
12 February 2005
- Britain: cancer death rates reflect social divide
- Britain: report documents widespread forced migrant labour
- Letters from our readers
- More evidence of US government’s torture by proxy
- New Zealand wages stagnate while share market booms
- The further hemorrhaging of Detroit—city to shut 34 public schools
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
14 February 2005
- Divisions among union officials over “reform” of AFL-CIO
- Huygens probe lands on Titan: a scientific leap for mankind
- Japan outbids China for Siberian pipeline
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New attack on democratic rights in Lynne Stewart case
New York civil rights attorney convicted on frame-up terror charges - North Korea pulls out of nuclear talks
15 February 2005
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On-the-spot report
Growing dissatisfaction in eastern Sri Lanka over lack of aid
Part One - Howard Dean named Democratic chairman: cosmetic change for a right-wing party
- Socialist Equality Party to contest Australian by-election
- US multinationals awarded huge tax break on foreign earnings
- US secretary of state offers Europe a “partnership”
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
16 February 2005
- Iraq election results reflect broad hostility to US occupation
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Mahmoud Abbas and the degeneration of the Palestinian national movement
Part One - New evidence of over-marketing of Vioxx and other anti-inflammatory drugs
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On-the-spot report
Sri Lankan refugees speak out over inadequate aid
Part Two - Two mysterious deaths in Georgia’s “Rose Revolution” regime
- US engineers provocation following assassination in Lebanon
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House passes “Real ID Act”
US legislation targets immigrants, refugees in “terror war”
17 February 2005
- Britain: Labour to privatise remains of public housing
- France: high school students demonstrate against education “reforms”
- Is this a novel of genuine anguish?
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Mahmoud Abbas and the degeneration of the Palestinian national movement
Part Two - New Zealand government extends military deployments in Afghanistan
- Striking Sri Lankan bus workers defy government threats
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Mossad, the CIA and Lebanon
The assassination of Rafiq Hariri: who benefited?
18 February 2005
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Bush names Negroponte as national intelligence director
A veteran of US subversion and dirty wars - CNN news chief steps down: right-wing purge continues in US media
- China’s worst mine explosion in more than 60 years
- Film on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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Released Guantánamo inmate speaks out
Mamdouh Habib indicts Australian government - NHL owners cancel North American ice hockey season
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Munich Security Conference
Schröder demands role for Germany as world power - Social Democrats routed in Danish election
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
19 February 2005
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30 years in prison for crime committed by 12-year-old
US society punishes its most vulnerable - Canada: Martin and Chrétien testify in corruption scandal
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Tras las elecciones del 2004 en EE.UU.
El Partido Socialista por la Igualdad y la lucha por la independencia política de la clase trabajadora
Primera parte - Kerry proposes 40,000 more troops, as Democrats back Bush war spending
- Letters from our readers
- Mounting concerns over fate of tsunami victims in Aceh
- US intelligence officials play the terrorism scare card, and make a damning admission
- Vote “no” in Spanish referendum on European Union constitution
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
21 February 2005
- Arthur Miller, an American playwright
- Egyptian government suppresses opposition while US turns blind eye
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Tras las elecciones del 2004 en EE.UU.
El partido Socilaista por la Igualdad y la lucha por la independencia política de la clase trabajadora
Segunda Parte - Extraordinary security measures for Bush visit to Germany
- NAACP resists investigation by IRS, charges political motivation
- Sri Lanka: tsunami survivors in Jaffna criticise government
- Trans-Atlantic tensions over EU plan to lift arms embargo on China
22 February 2005
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An “uplifting” diversion in New York’s Central Park
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “The Gates” - Britain: radio programme exposes corruption and theft in Iraq
- Bush in Europe: tensions boil beneath talk of transatlantic unity
- Bush signs bipartisan bill to curb class action lawsuits
- NAACP resists investigation by IRS, charges political motivation
- New Year for China’s rural migrant workers
- Workers Struggles: The Americas
- World Socialist Web Site Review: March-May 2005 issue now available
23 February 2005
- Australian government commits more troops to Iraq
- India’s tsunami victims left without government assistance
- Letters from our readers
- New evidence of US torture in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Quebec: government funding of private schools provokes public outcry
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The 55th Berlin Film Festival—Part 1
Social life and history intrude - Spain: record abstention in referendum on European Union constitution
24 February 2005
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Asian tsunami disaster: the political issues
SEP/WSWS public meeting in Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka - Australian government’s “terror alert” in Aceh backfires
- Bush in Brussels: US steps up threats of wider Mideast war
- Further opposition to Australia’s takeover in the Solomon Islands
- Germany: expansion of DNA testing—a step towards genetic registration
- Michigan artist sentenced to jail over mural nudity
- UK charities say Blair government contravening children’s rights
25 February 2005
- Australia: former leading intelligence official exposes government lies
- Financial markets shaken by US dollar scare
- German army to relieve US troops in Afghanistan
- Recruit’s death highlights brutality of Marine training
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Socialist Equality Party stands in Australian by-election
Support the socialist alternative in Werriwa - Turkey: paper workers occupy factory
- Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
26 February 2005
- Bush in Germany: smiles cannot mask US-European conflicts
- Germany: 15,000 demonstrate in Mainz against Bush visit
- Torture charged in US case alleging plot against Bush
- Town hall meeting on Social Security: Michigan Democrat seeks to contain popular anger
- Western Australian election: a campaign of diversions
- Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
- “High Ideals, Low Pay”—how the University of California exploits its employees
28 February 2005
- A reply to readers’ letters on “The New McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill”
- Australia: SEP launches Werriwa by-election campaign
- Australia: teenagers killed in high-speed police chase through working class suburb
- Conflict over Sudan on United Nations Security Council
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The 55th Berlin Film Festival—Part 2
Four films on Africa and the Middle East - Letters on artistic questions
- Readers’ letters on “The New McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill”
- US-Russian strains dominate Bush-Putin meeting in Bratislava
4 September 2008
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